Primitivism in Modern Art

Name: Primitivism in Modern Art
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ISBN: 9780674704909

ISBN-10: 0674704908

ISBN-13: 9780674704909

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert Goldwater

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This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin; an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Bruuml;cke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany; the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani; and a "primitivism of the subconscious" in Miroacute;, Klee, and Dali. Two of Goldwater's related essays--"Judgments of Primitive…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/23/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Publisher's Note Preface to The Revised Edition Introduction



Primitive Art in Europe



The Accessibility of The Material


The foundation of museums of ethnology


Their change from ""documentary"" to ""Aesthetic"" installation



The Evaluation of The Art of Primitive Peoples


A historical Account and Analysis of The Attitude of Anthropological and ethnological writers toward primitive Art


The beginnings of Their interest and The growth of The realization of Artistic value



The Preparation Th